LETTER: Tobacco use in businesses

As citizens, we feel we have the right to consume this legal product in any privately owned business unless the owner of such business voluntarily chooses to ban tobacco use in an establishment. We do not believe that any city, state or national government should be able to force a private business owner ban the consumption of a legal product against their will.

The free enterprise system of this county allows people to patronize businesses of their choosing. If they do not want to patronize a business that allows customers to smoke, they have that right, just a customer has the right not to patronize a business that bans the use of tobacco.

Likewise, if employees do not want to work in a business that allows the use of tobacco, they have the right to seek employment at a business that bans tobacco use.